Service Details
Name:
 DU PLESSIS
Given Name:
 JOHN HENRY
Initials:
 J H
Service No:
 207133V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 40 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-07-28
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Spitfire VC EF732, when acting as a weaver, hit by ack-ack. Flew back to lines, but plane stalled out and crashed
Additional
Information:
Son of Philip and Sophia du Plessis, of Reitz, Orange Free State, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 III. B. 14.

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